‘No clean chit to anybody’

A day after giving a clean chit to Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Union ministers M S Gill and Jaipal Reddy on irregularities in the Commonwealth Games projects, the Congress on Wednesday backtracked from its remarks.

“We have not given any clean chit or unclean chit to anybody. We are neither holding any brief for anybody nor indicting anybody,” party spokesman Manish Tewari said.

On Tuesday, the party had distanced itself from Indian Olympic Association president and Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and given a clean to Sheila Dikshit, M S Gill and Jaipal Reddy on the issue.